Christ Quote by Leo Tolstoy

At the height of Earth, Wind & Fire's success, I felt an emptiness and void. I studied lots of philosophies and cults and I…

— Philip Bailey

Many times, I have been shocked and frightened by human beings. I have experienced delight and revulsion. I have sometimes wanted to forget what…

— Svetlana Alexievich

“There is absolutely no experience, however terrible, or heartbreaking, or unjust, or cruel, or evil, which you can meet in the course of your…

— Hannah Hurnard

I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment and sorrow, just in order to…

— Hermann Hesse

I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be…

— Agatha Christie

There is something more awful in happiness than in sorrow--the latter being earthly and finite, the former composed of the substance and texture of…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

I feel exquisite pleasure in dwelling on the recollections of childhood, before misfortune had tainted my mind, and changed its bright visions of extensive…

— Anonymous

Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of…

— Bertrand Russell

What moments of despair that life would ever be made precious to me by the consciousness that I lived to some good purpose! It…

— George Eliot

My suffering left me sad and gloomy.

— Yann Martel

I was wholly at peace, at ease and at rest, so that there was nothing upon earth which could have afflicted me. This lasted…

— Julian of Norwich

“Suddenly the idea struck me that surely it was selfish to ask Heaven for anything; would it not be better to reflect on all…

— Marie Corelli